Bury This Once and Worms Will Work Your Soil All Season

You collect scraps, build a pile, turn it weekly, monitor moisture, wait six months, then wheelbarrow the result back to your beds. It works — but it's an elaborate detour around what the soil already knows how to do. Dig a hole. Dump the scraps in. Cover with soil. Walk away. The worms find the burial within days, process it into castings containing 500% more nitrogen, 700% more phosphorus, and 1,200% more potassium than surrounding soil, then tunnel outward through your bed distributing that fertility to every plant nearby. No pile, waiting, and near-zero nitrogen loss, because 12 inches of soil traps what a surface pile lets evaporate into the sky.